I don’t know if Dave Zatz is the only XOHM WiMAX customer in Washington, D.C. but since the service isn’t officially live there yet, I’m betting he’s among the few and the fast. He trekked up to Baltimore for a $60 WiMAX USB dongle over the weekend, found some Mac drivers and returned to D.C. What did he find? Wireless broadband speeds of 6,254 kbps down and 1,174 kbps back up. Not to shabby for the promotional $30 a month service without a contract. I gather that speeds will slowly decrease as more customers get on the network, but for now it looks like a network of one. Heck, if XOHM was lit up in Las Vegas, I’d bite on a USB modem to use it over during CES come January. Looks like the race between national WiMAX and LTE is heating up…
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